Rhona Clarke's CD, A Different Game, was given its Irish launch on the 3 December 2017 with Dr Jane O'Leary as guest speaker. It contains Piano trios 2, 3 & 4 along with duos & solo works all played by members of the incomparable Fidelio Trio.

" A Different Game features the considerable dynamic, expressive capabilities of The Fidelio Trio performing six chamber compositions that stand out for the articulate flow of modern classical ideas and the structural strengths... Clarke comes through as an original stylist and a brilliant musical conversationalist.."Greg Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music

"She has managed to create an exciting and often challenging personal voice that is always interesting and often quite beautiful."John France, MusicWeb.

​Glanleam House, Valentia Island Chamber Music Festival, Co Kerry (20 August 2016): The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, Adie Tal and Mary Dullea) with soprano Sylvia O'Brien. Rhona Clarke was the featured composer; as well as a performance of Piano Trio no 3 and Gleann Dá Loch for solo piano, there was a composer interview with Ryan Mollyy, and a screening of Clarke's collaborative videos with Marie Hanlon held at the RNLI boathouse. Mary Dullea was the artistic director of this delightful three-day event.

Richard O'Donnell directed the RIAM Percussion ensemble in the premiere of Behind Closed Doors, a work for 7 percussion players with video by Marie Hanlon. It was performed at ​Tambourimba percussion Festival Cali, Colombia 0n 24 July 2016.

​Birds On Wire Quartet (below), who gave the premiere of Magnificat, string quartet no 1 (1992), Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Quebec, Canada., 7 April 2016

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Smiling like that… (2015), for voice and tape, Aylish Kerrigan mezzo soprano, Stuttgart, Germany, 19 March 2016. The text is based on a section of Penelope from Ulysses by James Joyce.

​A CD of four piano trios, including my Piano Trio no 2, was given a 'pre-launch' at St Patrick's College Winter Music Festival on the 6th December 2015. There are four piano trios all played by the renowned Fidelio Trio, to mark the end of their three-year residency at the College. The other composers featured are: Seoirse Bodley, John Buckley and Fergus Johnston.

22 January 2015 Centre Culturel Irlandais, ParisConcorde, (Elaine Clarke and Martin Johnson) play con coro (2011) for violin, cello and tape. Thie work will feature alongside works by Jane O'Leary and David Fennessy as part of a multidisciplinary event based on Perception.con coro also featured at the CMC Salon Concer at the Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall

con coro also featured in the CMC Salon at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 29 October 2014

On 6 December 2014, Chamber Choir Ireland's Nine Lessons & Carols included world premiere of Rhona Clarke’s Make we merry, three carols on medieval texts (2014): "Glad and Blythe", "I Saw a Fair Maiden" and "Make We Merry".The concert was directed by Paul Hillier and took place in the glorious surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral.

Everything We See... - Marie Hanlon at SolsticeThis exhibition deals with the complexities of seeing and our understanding of what it is we see. Through a diverse range of work encompassing installation, video, drawing and sound, Marie Hanlon presents pieces which engage the viewer in questions of perception: what is real, what is fiction, can we 'know' based on what we 'see', and, do our assumptions hide the truth.The exhibition includes three works with music by Rhona Clarke including the title piece 'Everything we see...' (2014) an installation based on Magritte's After the grape Harvest

Running at Solstice, Navan until 6 December 2014The exhibition was opened on 23 October by Vivienne Dick.

Image from Cornerspace (2014) one of a number of collaborations with Marie Hanlon (with sound by Rhona Clarke) currently part of her solo exhibition, Everything we see...

DIC TAT, a book with CD, is being launched to coincide with the joint exhibition by Marie Hanlon and Rhona Clarke currently showing in the Ground Floor Gallery at Draíocht. It contains seventeen reproductions by Marie Hanlon, a CD of soundworks by Rhona Clarke, an essay by Rowan Sexton and an interview with Rhona Clarke by Nicola Lefanu.

The book will be launched officially by Shelley McNamara, Co Director of the internationally acclaimed architectural company, Grafton Architects.

Venue: Ground Floor Gallery Draíocht, Saturday 6th September 2014, 3pm.This event will mark the end of the exhibition.

DIC TAT

Draiocht, Blanchardstown July 17th runs until Sept. 6th 2014. The exhibition DIC TAT is a two-person event by artist Marie Hanlon and composer Rhona Clarke. It comprises a synchronized video, a suite of drawings, six electronic sound works and photographic documentation of sound sourcing. The title, taken from the video piece, explores variations of mark making while drawing to the pulse of a metronome. Here the metronome ʻdictatesʼ the pace, beating out precise measures for the drawing hand to follow. Generally in music the function of a metronome is to regularize a players timing, here the opposite applies. Split seconds between beats allow choices in direction and placing. The drawing tool may be handled differently, a line can be longer, shorter, curved or straight, while still observing a strictly measured beat. Given such restrictions, the markings are notably varied, expressive and irregular. Additional drawings and sound installations are concerned with linear development, working with restricted aural and visual colour elements.

The sound works were mostly composed using a metronome, either as a sound source in itself or as a background pulse, often eliminated in the final mix-down. All pieces were made with the idea of working against or with a regular pulse. ʻStilettoʼ plays with childhood memories, using sampled metronome pulses in conjunction with tongue clicks. It seeks irregularities within the regular, reminding the listener of passers by in high heels and related associations.ʻ Canonʼ, ʻForethoughtʼ and ʻAfterthoughtʼ are all improvisations to click tracks of different tempi while ʻTakeoverʼ uses a pulsating marimba tremolo as its basis, layering this sound and superimposing repeating guitar patterns, constantly varying – repetition but never exact repetition.

Recent Performances

The Small Hours - Up Close with Music with Concorde at the RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin Sunday 27 April 2014 @ 2.00pm the brain to slow down and process events of the day, usually by way of dreaming.

The music, played by the accordion, is dark and slow moving expressing something of the unreality associated with the small hours. A sense of searching pervades the visual imagery, its fragmented sequences requiring the viewer to find points of connection. The viewer is akin to the artist here and the film might be said to be about the process of making a work. Strong contrasts of light and dark, together with an underlying geometry, give a formal coherence to the piece.

The work , music and visuals, was commissioned by Concorde for their Up Close with Music series and is dedicated to Dermot Dunne.

10 May 2014

The Fidelio Trio gave a performance of Piano Trio no 2 at the 3rd Women in Music in Ireland Conference, hosted by St Patrick's College Drumcondra. The concert will include works by Nicola LeFanu and Sally Beamish. 10 May 2014, St Patricks College, Dublin City University, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.

14 January 2014. Horizons series at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. at 1.05. The RTÉNSO, directed by Gavin Maloney featured the work of Rhona Clarke.Pogramme:

Presented by BERNARD CLARKE RTÉ lyric fm

RHONA CLARKE Where the clouds go (1995)

GERALD BARRY La Jalousie Taciturne for string orchestra (1996)

PASCAL DUSAPIN Go, Solo No. 1 for orchestra (1992)

RHONA CLARKE SHIFT (2013) (RTÉ commission) world premiere

The concert was broadcast on Nova, Lyric FM on the 19 January.

CMC hosts a public workshop on choral composition with James MacMillan BBC SingersVeni Creator (2010) will be performed by the BBC singers at a free public workshop on choral composition with internationally acclaimed composer James MacMillan on Sunday 24 March 2014 from 12–3pm in the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall.Four Irish composers will be selected to have their work featured and discussed at the event, which will explore the artistic and technical challenges in writing for voices. The workshop will appeal to composers, choral directors and singers, as well as anyone with a general interest in new music and composition.Following the workshop, one of the featured Irish pieces will be selected for publication in Choir and Organ magazine and the sheet music made available for download with an accompanying studio recording by the BBC Singers.